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A Tight Corner

A Tight Corner is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Frank Pettingell, Gina Malo, Betty Astell and Charles Stratton. It was written by Michael Barringer and made at Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie for release by MGM.

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A Tight Corner
Gina Malo and Frank Pettingell in the film1
Directed byLeslie S. Hiscott
Written byMichael Barringer
Produced byJulius Hagen
StarringFrank Pettingell
Gina Malo
Betty Astell
Charles Stratton
CinematographySydney Blythe
Production
company
Real Art Productions
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • 1932 (1932)
Running time
49 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Tight Corner is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Frank Pettingell, Gina Malo, Betty Astell and Charles Stratton.2 It was written by Michael Barringer and made at Twickenham Studios as a quota quickie3 for release by MGM.4

Preservation status

The British Film Institute National Archive holds no stills or ephemera, and no film or video materials.2

Plot

Tony Titmouse and Oswald Blenkinsop are private inquiry agents, employed by Baron Yodel to recover incriminating letters from himself to Madame Ginkenstein, manager of a physical culture school. The agents pose as PT instructors to gain access to the school, and set about retrieving the letters.5

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Reception

Kine Weekly wrote: "A thin British comedy which falls back on old situations and ripe innuendos for its laughs, which are conspicuously few. The leading players do their best to enliven the proceedings, and the technical qualities are good, but the film still remains a very indifferent effort ... Frank Pettingell, the ample North-country comedian, cuts an amusing figure as Blenkinsop and gets away with some suggestive lines. ... This comedy, part leg show and part farce, is dispensed from a very old formula, and the gags and situations are too threadbare to raise a laugh except from the unsophisticated, who may appreciate the ripe lines."5

References

References

  1. "A Tight Corner". The Daily Film Renter (1657): 6. 8 June 1932. ProQuest 3127083118.
  2. "A Tight Corner". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 April 2026.
  3. Chibnall, Steve (2007). Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film. British Film Institute. p. 122. ISBN 978-1844571550.
  4. Wood, Linda (1986). British Films, 1927–1939 (PDF). British Film Institute. p. 76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2022.
  5. "A Tight Corner". Kine Weekly. 186 (1323): 23. 25 August 1932. ProQuest 2322729183.
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